Toyota Volta Concept
HONDA, ITALDESIGN-GIUGIARO TOYOTA CONCEPT HYBRIDS MAKE NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT IN MICHELIN CHALLENGE DESIGN™ NAIAS EXHIBIT
Honda GRX, Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Volta Join 34 Works Representing California Design
DETROIT- Michelin Challenge Design™ (MCD) brings an international collection of 36 works — including two high-profile concept vehicles making their North American debut from Honda and Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota — for a special exhibition at the 2006 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). In addition to the Honda GRX hybrid concept and concept eco supercar Toyota Volta, this year’s MCD exhibit features 12 scale models and 22 computer-generated ...

Concept cars can be awesome! Crazy, unfiltered designs that you know will never look like their production counterparts. Some even go as far as to be told they plan to make them. On some occasions they even look like the original draft! Then sometimes we get the rug pulled out from under us at the last second for some reason that we can’t feasibly comprehend.
Here are some awesome cars that kept their original mold that we thought for sure we would see production and why they didn’t make the cut. Prepare to pull your hair out asking, why!
2010 Jaguar C-X75
Price: $1.4 million
The C-X75 was introduced at the 2010 Paris Auto Show. It was a study in contrast. Its engine was a turbo ...

Geneva Motor Show: Giugiaro VAD.HO
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Well, those of us who didn’t go to Geneva appear to have missed out on seeing some pretty interesting cars in the metal. The Giugiaro VAD.HO, which we’ve previously reported on, is one of the better ones. It’s one thing to see the car in press kit photos against a blank background. Seeing it alongside actual human beings is another thing entirely, and man, does this thing look good.
We’re all for concepts such as the M3 Concept that BMW brought to the show, which are little more than not-so-sneaky previews of upcoming products. The true concept cars like the VAD.HO really capture ...

11 Great Moments in Battery History
Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery and a major reason Interstate Batteries exists today. Photo via Wikipedia.
February 18 is National Battery Day. believed to be named in honor of Alessandro Volta. the Italian physicist who invented the electric battery. He was born on this day in 1745.
At Interstate Batteries ® we’ve been charged with the important task of building awareness of and cranking up the excitement surrounding this day. To that end, we present the following 11 great moments in battery history. Some of them are actually true!
( Disclaimer: If you’re using this post to jump-start an academic research paper, you should probably ...

Supercar
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Performance criteria
Supercars have the acceleration and top speed above average sportscars.Usually the speed standard of being a supercar changes by time.Modern supercars must travel 0-60 mph in under 4 seconds in order to be classified as supercar.
Power-to-weight ratio
Most supercars have high engine power and low vehicle weight, for the sake of high acceleration (see Newton’s Second Law) and good handling dynamics. For example, the 2004 Porsche Carrera GT carries just five pounds per horsepower (3 kg/kW) compare this to the Porsche Boxster which hauls nearly 12 lb/hp (7.1 kg/kW). The McLaren F1. introduced ...

How Scientists, Car Companies, And The Military Are Creating The Smartest Energy Solution On The Market
By Jeff Spross May 1, 2014 at 2:59 pm Updated: May 1, 2014 at 3:41 pm
How Scientists, Car Companies, And The Military Are Creating The Smartest Energy Solution On The Market
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Back in February, Tesla Motors sent a shock wave through the energy technology world when it announced plans to build the globe’s biggest battery factory.
The sheer scale of the proposed “gigafactory ” is enormous. “[Tesla’s] goal by 2020 is to be producing 500,000 cars — 500,000 battery packs — out of that gigafactory,” said Steve LeVine, a journalist for Quartz who’s writing a book ...

Alessandro Volta — inventor of the electric cell
Alessandro Volta (February 18, 1745 March 5, 1827) was a Lombard physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in 1800.
Life
Alessandro Volta, a Lombard physicist, is known best for his pioneering work in electricity. Volta was born in Como and educated in the public schools there. In 1775 he became professor of physics at the Royal School in Como; in the following year, he perfected the electrophorus, an instrument that produced charges of static electricity.
In 1776-77 he applied himself to chemistry, studying atmospheric electricity and devising experiments such as the ignition of gases by an electric ...

Toyota Hybrid Sports Car
Toyota has always been known himself apart from all the car manufacturers, releasing some of the most extravagant designs that seem to grow in society once the cars establish themselves as bestsellers.
Japan goes Italian
Toyota hybrid sport car only can be a real head turner. This is what is expected when you have an elite group of designers to give the car new concept a new twist, the nice Italian. Pictures of the concept car have emerged from the company and the first thing that comes to mind is the Lamborghini Diablo, and only the Volta is eco-friendly.
Toyota believes that hybrid technology can also be used in high performance vehicles such as the Toyota Volta. ...

Sion Introduces a Lithium Sulfur Rechargeable Battery
The way to successful battery electric cars may be through your laptop computer and cellular telephone.
It’s generally accepted that battery EVs have suffered for a lack of a good, high energy density battery. Lead acid is might be cheap but its too heavy and too low in energy density to offer more than a 50-100 miles range before needing a lengthy recharge. Worse, they have a relatively short cycle life before needing to be replaced. While many intrepid early adopters learned to live with and love their electric cars, carmakers couldn’t be persuaded that the rest of us would be willing follow suit.
Meanwhile, the growth of ...

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio, Count
[b. Como. (Italy), February 18, 1745, d. Como, March 5, 1827]
Alessandro Volta
The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the electric battery, or voltaic pile, thus providing for the first time a sustained source of current electricity.
Alessandro Volta was born on Feb. 18, 1745, in Como. He resisted pressure from his family to enter the priesthood and developed instead an intense curiosity about natural phenomena, in particular, electricity. In 1769 he published his first paper on electricity. It contained no new discoveries but is of some interest as the most speculative of ...